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• I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

  Emile Zola

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Emile Zola “The Complete Rougon-Macquart Cycle (All 20 Unabridged Novels in one volume)”, e-artnow sro

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• My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive

  Maya Angelou

  Will To Survive, Aim Of Life, Life Is

  Twitter post from Aug 19, 2015

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• Every passion has its destiny.

  Billy Mills

  Sports, Inspiration, Destiny

  "Believe, Believe, Believe: Billy Mills' Own Story - from Desperation to Winning Gold". Interview with Duncan Larkin, www.takethemagicstep.com. May 28, 2010.

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• I can appreciate anybody's passion for anything.

  Kristanna Loken

  Appreciate, I Can

  "Kristanna Loken for 'Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. June 16, 2003.

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• A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil.

  Saint Dominic

  Men, Catholic, Hammers

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• It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Money, Giving Up

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• As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

  Ezra Pound

  White, Giving, Water

  Ezra Pound (1990). “Personae: The Shorter Poems (Revised Edition)”, p.101, New Directions Publishing

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  Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Runner's Book of Daily Inspiration: A Year of Motivation, Revelation, and Instruction". Book by Kevin Nelson, p. 11, 1999.

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• It is the passions that do and undo everything.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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• Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

  Teresa of Avila

  Love, Christian, Pregnancy

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1946). “Book of the foundations. Minor prose works. Poems. Documents. Indices”

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• Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Graduation, Giving Up

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• Hatred seems to work on the same glands as love: it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passion, would we have been able to say from their actions alone whether it was the jealous Judas or the cowardly Peter who loved Christ?

  Graham Greene

  Jealous, Hatred, Stories

  The End of the Affair ch. 3 (1951)

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• It is in the realm of uncertainty, that your passion is found.

  Tony Robbins

  Inner Strength, Found, Realms

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• Follow your passion. Be yourself, but check yourself before you wreck yourself.

  Andy Cohen

  Being Yourself, Wrecks, Checks

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• Passion colors all that it touches in its own hues.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Color, Hue

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• A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.153, Matthew Gordon

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• Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Power, Vices, Literature

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• Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

  Ice T

  Love, Loving Someone, World

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• We must act out passion before we can feel it.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Emotional

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• Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Intelligent, Intellectual, Sensuality

  Bradley I. Collins, Leonardo (da Vinci) (1997). “Leonardo, Psychoanalysis & Art History: A Critical Study of Psychobiographical Approaches to Leonardo Da Vinci”

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• Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Men, Iron, Giving

  Entry for December 17, 1856. "Journal Intime". Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, 1882.

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• The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

  Alexander Pope

  Literature, Conquer, Reason

  Epistles to Several Persons "To Lord Bathurst" l. 155 (1733)

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• He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.

  Henri Matisse

  Love, Running, Freedom

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.174, Univ of California Press

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• Blessed is the man who gets the opportunity to devote his life to something bigger than himself and who finds himself surrounded by friends who share his passion.

  Andy Stanley

  Blessed, Blessing, Opportunity

  Andy Stanley (2016). “Deep and Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend”, p.9, Zondervan

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